Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remarkable Resemblance. With that, Maverick gleefully dropped most of its own identity, loped off on a laconic parody called Gunshy. As played by Ben Gage, tall, broad-beamed Marshal Mort Dooley looked remarkably like Gunsmoke's tall, broad-beamed Marshal Matt Dillon. But unlike Dillon, Dooley is a businessman ("I own 37½% of the Weeping Willow Saloon") and contemplator ("This is Boot Hill-I like to come up here sometimes, to think, and maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke...
...hombres of yesteryear laugh themselves sick. Before making the draw, he must keep his hand on a button four inches from the holster. When his hand leaves the button, the clock starts running. The sound of the shot stops the clock. The Colorado Frontier Gunslingers' President Jim Dillon, a Denver butcher who likes to wear Western clothes under his meatcutter's apron, has been timed at a flashy .12 sec. In other contests, contestants fix a man-sized target, are timed from draw to bullet's impact...
...pretty sure I could do just as well as Jesse James or Billy the Kid," says Dillon. "Our boys regularly draw in .14 sec. Of course, if they were going to keep up with the oldtimers on accuracy, our boys would have to do some target practicing, but they can sure draw faster. The oldtimers had real poor gun belts. They often carried their guns too tight in their holsters...
...Calf. Today's fast-draw fanatic makes his move in a single, sweeping motion. He cocks his single-action pistol as he draws it from the holster, fires as soon as it gets into position, sometimes, alas, even sooner. In a recent match with Dillon's men, the Colorado Gunslingers Association's President Earl Vaughn, a Colorado Springs air-conditioning engineer, managed to shoot his right calf full of paraffin. Says Dillon, who has been guilty of the same sin himself: "The oldtimers must have cocked as they drew, too. 'Course, I never heard...
...members everywhere were aghast last week when one Jack Bender of Chicago, practicing with real bullets in his Buntline Special model, accidentally shot and killed his 14-month-old son (whom he had named Wyatt Earp). They quickly pointed out that he was not affiliated with any club. Cried Dillon: "Anyone using live ammunition is like a drunken driver. He is simply asking for trouble...